Representatives of 101 nations gathered in Switzerland on Saturday and Sunday for a Peace Summit leading to an eventual peace settlement. Though the meeting did not include any indicted Russian diplomats, the summit sent a strong message to Russia about what any peace agreement will look like if it doesn’t win a total victory on the battlefield,
Although the peace summit on Ukraine looked more like another U.N. General Assembly, where different countries talked about the U.N. Charter and respect for international law, the participants reached a consensus that war in Ukraine must end with a “just and lasting peace,” not peace at any cost.
That conference produced a set of principles that will guide any peace settlement and lay the ground for another summit.
Zelenskyy cited three expectations from the conference: to “prove that the return of security is indeed possible,” to…
